Dozens of U.S. states have filed lawsuits alleging antitrust violations by Google Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Dozens of U.S. attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit in federal court against Alphabet (NASDAQ 🙂 Inc.’s Google on Wednesday, according to a court statement.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California. The complaint was not immediately available.

States that will file a lawsuit claiming that the search and advertising giant violates the antitrust law by running its app store for Android phones, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The lawsuit, one of a series filed against Google in the U.S., continues with complaints about the management of the Google app store known as Google Play App, even though it initially saw the company as more open than Apple Inc. (NASDAQ). ).

Google prohibits apps with objectionable content from its store, and some apps require you to use the company’s payment tools and require Google to pay you 30% of your revenue.

These and related policies have drawn criticism from app developers, especially when Google said it would increase enforcement in September. The Google Play Play Store is much more widely used than Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ :), Samsung Electronics (OTC 🙂 Co Ltd, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and similar products.